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Course Overview:
The CT-325: Security+ (SY0-701) class is the primary class you will need to take if your job responsibilities include securing network services, network devices, and network traffic. It will also help you prepare for the CompTIA Security+ examination (exam number SY0-701). In the CT-325: Security+ class you’ll build on your knowledge and professional experience with computer hardware, operating systems, and networks as you acquire the specific skills required to implement basic security services on any type of computer network. Let us help you prepare for the CompTIA Security+ exam (SY0-701).
TechNow is a CompTIA partner and uses official CompTIA Security+ curriculum.
Attendees to CT-325: Security+ will receive TechNow approved course materials and TechNow expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
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Duration: 5 Days
Course Objectives:
- Compare and contrast attacks
- Compare and contrast security controls
- Use security assessment tools
- Explain basic cryptography concepts
- Implement a public key infrastructure
- Implement identity and access management controls
- Manage access services and accounts
- Implement a secure network architecture
- Install and configure security appliances
- Install and configure wireless and physical access security
- Deploy secure host, mobile, and embedded systems
- Implement secure network access protocols
- Implement secure network applications
- Explain risk management and disaster recovery concepts
- Describe secure application development concepts
- Explain organizational security concepts
Prerequisites:
- CompTIA A+ and Network+ certifications, or equivalent knowledge.
- Windows 7/8/10 and Server 2008/2012/2016 experience required.
- Six to nine months experience in networking, including experience in configuring & managing TCP/IP.
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Instructor comments: Instructor was very knowledgeable on all the course content. There were some instances when I felt he streamlined through some of the material too quickly, such as going over how to identify types of attacks.
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Course Overview:
An in-depth course on how to use and configure Cisco Firepower Threat Defense technology, from device setup and configuration and including routing, high availability, Firepower Threat Defense migration, traffic control, and Network Address Translation (NAT). Students implement advanced Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) features, including network intelligence, file type detection, network based malware detection, and deep packet inspection.
Students will also learn how to configure site to site VPN, remote access VPN, and SSL decryption before moving on to detailed analysis, system administration, and troubleshooting. This course combines lecture materials and hands on labs throughout to make sure that students are able to successfully deploy and manage the Cisco Firepower system.
It is a five-day instructor-led course that is aimed at providing network security engineers with the knowledge and skills that are needed to implement and maintain perimeter solutions that are based on Cisco Firepower security appliances. At the end of the course, students will be able to reduce risk to their IT infrastructure and applications using Cisco Firepower security appliance features, and provide detailed operations support for the Firepower appliance.
Attendees to N-485: In-Depth Securing Networks with Cisco Firepower Threat Defense NGFW will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
No Events
Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
- Understand Sourcefire, Firepower 6.2, FireAMP, and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)
- Configure the Firepower Management Center (FMC)
- Raise you confidence managing the Firepower Manager and Firepower tThreat Defense (FTD)
- Describe the Cisco Firepower Systems infrastructure
- Navigate the user interface and administrative features of the Cisco Firepower 6.2 system, including advanced analysis and reporting functionality to properly assess threats
- Describe the System Configuration and Health policies and implement them
- Describe the role Network Discovery (Firepower) technology plays in the Cisco devices
- Describe, create, and implement objects for use in Access Control policies
- Create DNS and URL policies and configure Sinkholes
- Configure FTD policies such as Platform, Routing, Interface, Zones, PreFilter, QoS, NAT and Flex Config!
- Describe advanced policy configuration and Firepower system configuration options
- Configure Malware Policies to find and stop Malware
- Understand Security Intelligence, and how to configure SI to stop attacks NOW!
- Configure policies to find and stop Ransomware
- Understand how to fine tune IPS policies
- Understand how to find tun Snort Preprocessor policies (NAP)
- Configure Correlation events, white rules, traffic profiles and create respective events and remediate them
- Analyze events
- Create reporting templates and schedule them
- Configure backups, rule updates, Firepower Recommendations, URL updates, and more to run every week automatically
- Set up external authentication for users using LDAP/Realms
- Configuring system integration, realms, and identity sources
- Configure FMC domains and implement them
- Configure FTD HA with two FTD devices
- SSL Policy – decrypt your traffic
- AnyConnect and Site-to-Site VPN
- Understand network and host based AMP. Configure and analyze host based AMP
- Understand Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
- Configure ISE and integrate with Cisco FMC identity policy using PxGrid
Prerequisites:
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification. or equivalent
- Cisco Certified Network Associate Security (CCNA Security) certification. or equivalent
- Working knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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Course Overview:
PowerShell is made for Security Operations (SecOps) automation on Windows. SecOps requires automation in order to scale out security changes and monitoring beyond a handful of hosts. For example, when a vulnerability must be remediated but there is no patch for it yet, automation is needed to quickly and consistently enact the changes necessary. PowerShell “remoting” is encrypted remote command execution of PowerShell scripts in a way that can scale to thousands of endpoints and servers.
Imagine being able to hunt for indicators of compromise across thousands of machines with just a few lines of PowerShell code. Or imagine having the local Administrator account password reset every night on thousands of endpoints in a secure way, and being able to retrieve that password securely too.
We will show you to do these tasks and more. Transcription logging for forensics, strong encryption code signing, application whitelisting of scripts, IPSec port control, and Just Enough Admin (JEA).
As more and more of our systems are moved up to the cloud, PowerShell will become even more important. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Hyper-V and VMware already support PowerShell administration for many tasks.
Attendees to TN-965: Windows Security Automation with PowerShell will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
No Events
Duration: 5 days
Intended Audience
This course is intended for IT Professionals already experienced in general Windows Server and Windows Client administration or already experienced in administering and supporting Application servers and services including applications like Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL. It is broadly intended for students who want to use Windows PowerShell to automate administrative tasks from the command line, using any Microsoft or independent software vendor (ISV) product that supports Windows PowerShell manageability.
Course Objectives:
PowerShell Overview and Tips
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- Getting started running commands
- Using and updating the built-in help
- Execution policies
- Fun tricks with the ISE graphical editor
- Piping .NET and COM objects, not text
- Using properties and methods of objects
- Helping Linux admins feel more at home
- Aliases, cmdlets, functions, modules, etc.
- Customizing your profile script
What Can We Do With PowerShell
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- PowerShell remote command execution
- Fan-out remoting and security
- File copy via PowerShell remoting
- Capturing the output of commands
- Parsing text files and logs with regex patterns
- Searching remote event logs faster with XPath
- Mounting the registry as a drive
- Exporting data to CSV, HTML and JSON files
- Parsing and mining nmap port scanner XML output
- Running scripts as scheduled jobs
- Pushing out scripts through Group Policy
- Importing modules and dot-sourcing functions
- http://www.PowerShellGallery.com
Write your own scripts
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- Writing your own functions
- Passing arguments into your scripts
- Function parameters and returning output
- Flow control: if-then, do-while, foreach, switch
- The .NET Framework class library: a playground
- How to pipe data in/out of your scripts
Continuous Secure Configuration Enforcement
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- How to use Group Policy and PowerShell together
- Automate with INF security templates
- How to customize INF templates
- Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM)
- SECEDIT.EXE scripting
- Building an in-house security repository for SecOps/DevOps
- NSA’s Secure Host Baseline GPOs
Group Policy Precision Targeting
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- Managing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) with PowerShell
- LSDOU, Block Inheritance, Enforced GPOs
- Group Policy permissions for targeting changes
- ADMX templates for mass registry editing
- Deploying PowerShell startup and logon scripts
- WMI item-level targeting of GPO preferences
- GPO scheduled tasks to run PowerShell scripts
- Remote command execution via GPO (not remoting)
- Empowering the Hunt Team to fight back!
Server Hardening for SecOps/DevOps
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- Server Manager scripting with PowerShell
- Adding and removing roles and feature
- Remotely inventory roles, features, and apps
- Why Server Nano or Server Core
- Running PowerShell automatically after service failure
- Service account identities, passwords, and risks
- Tools to reset service account passwords securely
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
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- DSC is Configuration Management built in for free
- Using DSC for continuous reinforcement of settings
- Writing your own DSC configuration scripts
- Free DSC resource modules: www.PowerShellGallery.com
- How to push DSC configurations to many targets
- DSC background job processing in push mode
- Examples: sync files, install roles, manage groups
- Auditing a remote target against a DSC MOF template
- “ApplyAndAutoCorrect” mode for continuous enforcement
PowerShell Just Enough Admin (JEA)
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- JEA is Windows sudo, like on Linux
- JEA is Windows setuid root, like on Linux
- Restricting commands and arguments
- Verbose transcription logging
- How to set up and configure JEA
- Privilege Access Workstations (PAWs)
PowerShell and WMI
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- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service
- What is WMI and why do hackers abuse it so much?
- Using PowerShell to query WMI CIM classes
- WMI authentication and traffic encryption
- Inventory operating system versions and installed software
- WMI remote command execution versus PowerShell remoting
- PowerShell security best practices
- PowerShell transcription logging to catch hackers
Prerequisites:
- Previous Windows Server and Windows Client management knowledge and hands on experience.
Experience installing and configuring Windows Server into existing enterprise environments, or as standalone installations. - Knowledge and experience of network adapter configuration, basic Active Directory user administration, and basic disk configuration.
- Knowledge and hands on experience specifically with Windows Server 2012/Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8/Windows 8.1 would be of benefit but is not essential.
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Course Overview:
This course will be fast paced with in-depth and live demonstrations.
Date/Locations:
No Events
Duration: 1 day
Course Objectives:
- AIDE
- DNS Security with DNSsec
- Logging and Audit Management
- Linux Security Modules and SE-Linux
- Linus Containers (Jailing Services and Apps)
- SSH and SSL tunneling
Prerequisites:
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